Markey: HomeStar Will Be Summer Blockbuster for Consumers, Jobs
Four Stars for Home Star
Creating New Jobs
Over 168,000 jobs will be saved or created in the construction, manufacturing, and retail sectors.
Saving Consumers Money
Energy efficient homes will save hardworking families more than a billion dollars in 2011 alone – and $9.5 billion over the next decade.
Saving Energy
Efficiency upgrades cut energy waste and foreign oil imports. Home Star will save the same amount of energy as 615,000 cars, and means we’ll need 4 less power plants.
Products Made in the U.S.A.
90% of the retrofit products for Home Star - windows, doors, and insulation - are manufactured in the USA.
Broad Support for Home Star Pours In
Over 1,200 organizations are supporting Home Star, including:
- Chamber of Commerce
- Organized Labor
- National Association of Manufacturers
- Faith Groups
- Green For All
- Alliance to Save Energy
- Environment America
- Fmr Governor Engler & Fmr Senator & Sec of Energy Abraham [Op-Ed]
HomeStar Will Be Summer Blockbuster for Consumers, Jobs
Bill Passes Subcommittee, Will Create or Save 168,000 Jobs
The HomeStar program to help families retrofit their homes with more efficient windows, doors and other home improvements today passed the Energy and Environment Subcommittee, moving a program backed by President Obama one step closer to becoming reality. The bill passed on a voice vote.
“In the next couple months, I believe HomeStar will go from an unheralded, small budget program to become the summer blockbuster our economy needs,” said Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee in the Energy and Commerce Committee. “This bill will ensure that HomeStar will be a four-star program for our economy, creating jobs, saving consumers money, saving energy, and producing products that are largely ‘Made in America.’”
HomeStar is a program designed to help every homeowner looking for a little extra help to make their home more efficient by saving energy. The program will provide homeowners rebates for purchasing and installing more efficient windows, doors, insulation and other home improvements that will cut energy bills while jumpstarting our manufacturing and labor sectors.
The HomeStar program addresses several important issues facing the American economy:
JOBS: HomeStar will create or save an estimated 168,000 jobs. There is currently a 27 percent unemployment rate in the construction sector.
HOMEOWNERS: HomeStar will help homeowners save $9.2 billion dollars on their energy bills.
ENERGY: In 2011 alone, HomeStar will save an amount of electricity equivalent to four 300 megawatt power plants and an amount of natural gas and home heating oil the equivalent of 6.8 million barrels of heating oil.
Chairman Markey added an amendment to the HomeStar program capping the total cost of the program at $6 billion.
PHOTOS FROM APRIL 14, 2010 PRESS CONFERENCE
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